Abbey's knee and buying baby clothes

Well we found out on Friday that Abbey definitely has completely ruptured her ACL in her right knee. Right now the cartilage appears to be ok from what they can tell, and hopefully if we do the surgery fast they won't have to remove all the cartilage from that knee like they did last time in her left knee. She's on antibiotics now for a slight UTI and will go in for surgery this Friday (11/4/05). She will also be starting estrogen therapy this week for estrogen related incontinence. Apparently this is common in older female spayed dogs. It is what is causing her repeated UTI's. Luckily the estrogen pills are super cheap and will only be like 3$ a month. (UNlike her pain meds which are more like 40$ a month!) Lucky for us, our vet is letting us pay for the surgery over 3 months. Phew!

This weekend we went to my mother-in-law's house in Tampa. We had a wonderful time shopping for baby clothes and stuff! We went to a consignment shop and bought tons of cute clothes and then to Target and found some great stuff on clearance. We washed it all and folded them into one of those vacuum bags so that they'll be all nice and fresh. Donna's keeping them all at her place for us until we get the new house. (Thank you Mom!)

Speaking of the new house, we're going this week to talk with the building company and see if they can build the house in the time we have. HOPEFULLY they can and we'll go ahead and start the process. If not, well, we're going to have to get creative somehow. Let's all hope they can get a modular home up and livable by March!

AND one more thing. While over at Tom's mom's house we decided on a name. Tom's pretty sure this one is it. I like to keep my options open, but I like this one too. The name will be Nicholas Charles Mott. I'm going to call him Nicky and he can go by Nick when he's in school. (And yes, I know it rhymes with a bunch of neat words. Already considered it. Thanks!)